PRIDE

Have you ever daydreamed about quitting your job to pursue your passion? Most of us have at least at some point in our lives. But very few people actually have the guts to take a chance and go for it. It’s scary enough even thinking about it, let alone actually doing it. But someday, when the moment feels right, you may find the courage to take that leap, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll stick the landing. That’s what happened for Matt Armato and Beau Ciolino when they decided to reimagine life as they knew it and drop everything to create content full-time for their food and lifestyle blog, Probably This.Today, Matt and Beau share the story of how they made their entrepreneurial dreams come true, and take us behind the scenes of their Instafamous blog. Be sure to follow Probably This on IG!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2015, Carol, directed by Todd Haynes, was released. In 2015, the life of Allison Tate was forever changed. The only thing left to do? Create a Carol Support Group.Be sure to follow Allison on IG!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kalen Allen is hilarious, charismatic, and quickly rising to the top. The Advocate called him the New Gay King of Media. Ellen Degenered loved him so much she offered him a job. And we got him in the studio to talk about his past, his present, and his bright future. Be sure to follow Kalen on IG and check out his youtube!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trigger warning: We talk about drug addiction, sex addiction, and sexual abuse of children on this week’s episode of Pride. Brandon Lee is a successful journalist who has won two Emmys for his investigative reporting into child molestation and the opioid epidemic. But until 10 years ago, he was living a double life: One as a smiling news anchor and the other as a sex and drug addict.Be sure to follow Brandon on IG and listen to his podcast, Escaping Rock Bottom.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Addison Rose Vincent is breaking the binary. Identifying as transfeminine non-binary, Addison has been living in LA and working as an advocate for the genderqueer community since their time at Chapman University. Defying binary categorization, even in a liberal city like Los Angeles, isn’t easy. But Addison’s views on education, strength and above all, compassion are inspiring.Be sure to follow Addison on IG!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jordan Doww has seen the light and dark of Hollywood, social media, and moving across the country to follow your dreams. There’s cancel culture and abuses of power, but then there’s finding the strength to rise above it all and love yourself.Be sure to follow Jordan on IG and on his youtube channel!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitchell Coombs, once a Youtuber, is now a successful radio and podcast producer living and working in Sydney, Australia. Let’s talk about radio, autism, toenail polish, sheep farming, and more.Be sure to follow Mitchell on IG and listen to his podcast!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perez Hilton, creator of Hollywood’s Most Hated Website, is not all gossip and insults. Now he’s a devoted father or three and gradually making amends. Be sure to follow Perez on IG.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andres Hernandez spent 12 years in the US military as a combat engineer. His job was to find IEDs and disarm them, keeping soldiers and civilians safe. Six years after he enlisted, Barack Obama repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Five years after that he came out to his company.Be sure to follow Andres on IG.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandi Glanville is good TV and she’s also crooked AF. Let’s talk about Housewives, The Apprentice, friends, family and give a little history lesson on American gay rights. Be sure to follow Brandi on IG and listen to her podcast, Brandi Glanville Unfiltered!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does John Duff’s butt compare to Kim Kardashian’s butt? How does one become a pop star? Is there room in the world for a studly, gay, up and coming pop star to hold a mirror up to society? Can you come back from being cancelled? Find out on this week’s episode of Pride.Be sure to follow John on IG.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s talk about butts. This week I’m joined by gay proctologist and "hole" enthusiast, Dr. Evan Goldstein. Knowledge will be spread. Jokes will be cracked. Instagrams will be plugged.Be sure to follow Dr. Goldstein on IG.Also be sure to follow @bespokesurgical and @thefuturemethod!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Burlesque, in its many forms, has been popular for a long time, not just since the 20s and 30s like you probably know, but all the way back into the 1800s. In the 90s, there was a burlesque revival and it has been going strong ever since.My guest today is a burlesque dancer, yes. But if you’re not super caught up on the LA burlesque scene, you may have also seen him as Glitter Fantasy, Cosmopolitan’s first ever Unicorn Correspondent. Or leading a barre class at Equinox. You may have even seen him presiding over the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval as the Queen of Carnaval in 2017. Today, we’ll talk with Jake about burlesque, drag, stripping and what can happen when you do a back handsprings in stilettos.Be sure to follow Jake on IG.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even though you might not be a cosplayer yourself, we all dress up and play make-believe, whether it’s doing drag or just dressing up for a party or even pretending you’re going to yoga on your Instagram story when really you’re going to Denny’s for Moons Over My-Hammy. Speaking of Hammy … My guest today designs, creates and dresses up in costumes professionally. In the past, he’s transformed into Robin, Aquaman, Gambit from the X-Men, the Green Lantern, and Captain America. The list goes on and on.But even though it sounds like all fun and games, traveling the world dressing up as your favorite superheroes isn’t always a dream. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s usually a dream. Stick around, and we’ll hear all about the ups and downs of being a pro cosplayer in the age of Instagram and Patreon.Be sure to follow Michael on IG.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone plays the lead in the story of their own life. Will Sterling and Tessa Glanville are both involved in a brand new web series called Sonder. Tessa is making her acting debut and Will Sterling, in addition to acting in the series himself, is one of the creators and writers. It’s created to be watched entirely on Instagram, shot vertically, and it premieres next month.Be sure to follow Will and Tessa on IG.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett the Intern is a lot of great things. He’s hilarious, successful and gay to name a few. But Brett the Intern is an intern no longer. Now he’s kicking ass in the entertainment industry and making a difference in the world. Let’s talk about interning, coming out, getting married, bullying and… Apple pie.Be sure to follow Brett on Instagram.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do pirates know they’re pirates? They think… therefore they ARRR. Sorry for that terrible joke. But I want us all to get into the space of pirates. The open sea, violence, stealing, run-ins with the law, and above all, freedom -- from the social burdens of the Early Modern Era and -- freedom to love who they loved.Pirates have been around forever. From the Vikings in the 8th century to Somali pirates in recent years, there is something undeniably exciting about sailing the ocean and taking what you want. My guest today is pirate scholar and aficionado, Rebecca Simon.The pirates we’ll meet today were way more exciting than eye patches and wooden legs. Get ready for a crash course on the Golden Age of piracy -- the time of Blackbeard and the real Pirates of the Carribean. We’ll meet famous queer pirates like John Swann, Robert Culliford, Ann Bonnie, and Mary Read. And maybe we’ll go home with a few pirate-inspired tips on how to use your style to intimidate.Be sure to follow Becka on TwitterYour host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The year is 2006. Twitter launches. Lance Bass comes out as gay. Pluto is no longer a planet. Hannah Montana debuts on the Disney Channel. And Tadd Fujikawa becomes the youngest person to qualify for the US open.The world of pro golf has never exactly been a beacon of diversity. The fact that it wasn’t until last year that Tadd became the first male pro golfer to come out as gay is evidence enough. Today, we’re talking to Tadd about the ups and downs of playing professional golf, what it was like to come out, and how his relationships with his family have changed since then. And we’ll hear what the queer dating scene is like in Georgia. Spoiler. It’s not ideal.Be sure to follow Tadd on IG.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Janelle Monae. Neil Patrick Harris. Colton Haynes. Laverne Cox. There are so many inspiring LGBTQ actors and performers in entertainment today. Now, more than ever before, there are opportunities for queer people to tell stories and build successful careers, like my guest today, Harvey Guillén.Yes, we’ve come a long way, Hollywood. Even so, there’s a lot of work to be done. But if we can work even half as hard as Harvey worked toward achieving his dream of being an actor, I think we’ll be off to a good start.Be sure to follow Harvery on IGYour host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine Youtube in the mid 2000s, long before Logan Paul, before Despacito and Ryan's Toy Review, before monetization and autoplay. Back then, LGBTQ voices like Joe Graceffa, Tyler Oakley, Gigi Gorgeous, and my guest today, Davey Wavey, were creating their own scene on YouTube. Now, in 2019, people watch one billion hours of videos on Youtube every day. It's the second most visited site in the world, second only to Google. And Youtube searches of "how-to" videos are growing 70% year on year. We use YouTube to learn everything.But there's another part of the internet that people regularly visit to learn how to do things they've never done before ... The world of porn. It's hard to get the exact numbers, but surveys and studies suggest that around 50% of all internet traffic is porn. And with fewer than half of US states mandating sex education, with the content mostly decided by individual school districts, and rarely if ever discussing gay sex, it's not surprising that many of us look to porn for our own DIY sex education. Today's guest experienced that and saw an opportunity to make porn better and more empowering for the queer community.Be sure to follow Davey Wavey on IGAnd to learn more about Himeros make sure to visit www.himeros.tvYour host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @Pride.*This podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, everyone! This is Levi, the host of LGBTQ+U, which is soon to be called, PRIDE. We're taking a small break and will return August 14th with all new episodes featuring amazing guests! In the meantime, you can listen to all of our previous episodes and make sure to follow us on Instagram @pride and if you haven't already, subscribe to the PRIDE podcast on your favorite platform. We'll see you in two weeks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drag Race might just be the hottest show in the world right now, but what does it actually take to be a drag performer? For Jason De Puy, better known as Salina Estitties, it's a LOT of work. But when you realize your creative outlet also lets you communicate better with the world around you and show it who you are inside, then you become a true artist.Be sure to follow Salina Estitties!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @LGBT, @LGBTQ, and @Pride.Your producers are Will Sterling and Ryan Tillotson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever wondered if you might be psychic? How can you get in touch with your inherent psychic abilities? Gay medium James Van Praagh always knew he was different when he was young, but after a major prediction in his adult life came true he went from skeptic...to psychic! Now he's on the world's most famous mediums and a multi-New York Times bestselling author.Find James on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @LGBT, @LGBTQ, and @Pride.Your producers are Will Sterling and Ryan Tillotson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever thought about the queer or gay themes within the Star Wars franchise? Although the films have yet to create an LGBTQ+ character, it hasn't stopped many fans from coming up with their own storylines, or analyzing what already exists to explore it's already present queer storylines and themes. Meet Dustin Diehl aka Dr. Jedi. He's your expert on everything Star Wars, including just how gay it really is.To follow Dustin, check him out on twitter @DrJedi.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @LGBT, @LGBTQ, and @Pride.Your producers are Will Sterling and Ryan Tillotson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're bi, how many of your friends have sort of felt like you aren't REALLY bi...you're just indecisive? But being bi, unlike for a lot of college kids, is not a phase. Sarah Klegman has always known she's bi. But sometimes it can feel like people just don't believe you. She found her authenticity and happiness in her orientation, maybe it can help you find yours!Find @SarahKleg on socials! And @ChallahHub!Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @LGBT, @LGBTQ, and @Pride.Your producers are Will Sterling and Ryan Tillotson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Elliot Hirsch is a board certified plastic surgeon in Sherman Oaks, CA. If you're starting to think about your journey through gender confirmation, he might be your guy. Learn the importance of building relationships with doctors you trust who are going to care for you and your well being. And don't ask your Dentist for breast implants. (Seriously, that happened.)Find Dr. Hirsch at https://www.hirschplasticsurgery.com/Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Your producers are Will Sterling and Ryan Tillotson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Jordan Stawecki. He's the formerly self appointed "it boy" of the New York nightlife scene. Even though he might be living in LA now, it doesn't change the fact that his career started as an intern for Obama. So just what took from from the political trail to the party scene? Like you and I, it may be more relatable than you think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Carter, aka Danimal, has been leading a naked yoga revolution in our Nation's capitol for years. And now the trend is starting to catch on across the country. How exactly does one get involved teaching naked yoga? Despite most minds assuming it would lead straight to a sexual experience, DC Naked Yoga is bringing people together in new ways, teaching them about vulnerability.Follow Danimal on Instagram and explore their site at https://www.dcnakedyoga.com/.Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.Follow the show and keep up with the conversation @LGBT, @LGBTQ, and @Pride.Want more great shows from Straw Hut Media? Check out or website at strawhutmedia.com.Your producers are Will Sterling and Ryan Tillotson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be gay in a gang? Or what about Hawaii’s big gay history you probably didn’t know about. And if you’re a guy, did you know it’s better for you to sit when you pee? Levi Chambers, creator of the successful website Gayety, brings his fun, funny, andsometimes heartstring pulling findings to you through great conversations from doctors, experts, professionals, and most importantly, people just like you. Or maybe they’re people like your friends and neighbors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices